![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say, Lin-Manuel Miranda was a bit more gracious in his response than Aaron Sorkin was when he was asked about the rampant inaccuracies in The Social Network back when that movie came out. Gordon-Reed answered questions about creative license and historical accuracy in the special. So I was very interested to see how Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dr. I used both Hamilton and The Social Network as examples of popular creative works that take liberties with the histories they purport to tell. In my upcoming book project, I have a chapter on the ethical use of information that considers some of the differences between “ethical use for academic/scholarly research,” where citation is required and creative license is anathema, and “ethical use for creative research,” where creative license is assumed. And there are also questions about the show’s historical accuracy. I expected it mostly to be a fluff piece about how great Hamilton is and mostly it is but it also considers how Hamilton as a show feels a bit different in 2020 (when the special was filmed) than it might have when it was filmed back in 2016. I also watched the tie-in special that ABC/Disney made to go with the release of the film, which is called “Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes on You.” The setup is a kind of group Zoom interview between Robin Roberts, members of the cast, and Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed. Like a lot of people, I do wish they had been able to capture more of the amazing choreography in the film, but I guess the trade-off was getting to see the actors’ faces up close in a way that you wouldn’t if you were actually seeing the show in the theater. It was a lot of fun to see the original cast, many of whom I know from other projects, in their breakout roles, especially after having just seen some of them in the movie version of In the Heights. It was a pretty thrilling experience, so I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about this filmed version. But unlike a lot of the shows I watch on screen, I’ve actually seen the touring version of Hamilton live. As someone who, even in normal times, doesn’t get to the theater as much as I would like to due in no small part to ticket prices, I generally appreciate these special, filmed performances that get released to movie theaters and sometimes streaming (see also: Newsies). For the Fourth of July this year, I finally sat down and watched Hamilton on Disney Plus, the version that was filmed live with the original cast back in 2016. ![]()
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